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no, it's been a long 11 years of combat in afghanistan and iraq. but our military and its leaders have brought the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, osama bin laden to justice, and for a decade, america has been safe from the next round of attacks that we all thought were imminent 11 years ago. none of this could have been accomplished without the brave men and women of our armed forces. on 9/11, the mission of our military changed overnight. those already enlisted knew they would be heading for war, and many more joined our military knowing that they, too, would be headed for combat. from the events of 9/11, the best of america was reborn. a new generation of americans dedicated to service and preservation of freedom were called to action because of 9/11. these americans were among the first on the ground in foreign countries. they toppled a dictator, liberated a nation of women and children from an oppressive regime and brought to justice osama bin laden. today our overseas operations fighting the war on terror continues, but for many of these sold
no, it's been a long 11 years of combat in afghanistan and iraq. but our military and its leaders have brought the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, osama bin laden to justice, and for a decade, america has been safe from the next round of attacks that we all thought were imminent 11 years ago. none of this could have been accomplished without the brave men and women of our armed forces. on 9/11, the mission of our military changed overnight. those already enlisted knew they would be heading for...
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the iraq and afghanistan veterans of america have called and pleaded for its immediate passage. and they know why. because their veterans need, and they need to know that congress has their back. so i just make a plea to the senate, we just need a few votes from that side of the aisle to get to the threshold of 60 to waive the technicality of the budget point of order. and, madam president, i would yield the floor and i would be looking forward to my friend's comments. mr. coburn: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. nelson: the time is controlled over here. i would reserve, madam president, the final seven minutes for the chairman of the committee. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coburn: my colleague from florida raises some good points about our desire, about us wanting to help our veterans. i don't think there is anybody here that does not recognize the significant sacrifice. as a matter of fact, it wasn't long ago that the 45th from oklahoma lost 17 people in afghanistan and hundreds wounded. the real question is how do you hel
the iraq and afghanistan veterans of america have called and pleaded for its immediate passage. and they know why. because their veterans need, and they need to know that congress has their back. so i just make a plea to the senate, we just need a few votes from that side of the aisle to get to the threshold of 60 to waive the technicality of the budget point of order. and, madam president, i would yield the floor and i would be looking forward to my friend's comments. mr. coburn: madam...
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let's say the end of the iran iraq war. let's go back. the middle of the 1980's we see iran preoccupied by the war end of the united states kind of intermittently gets involved. does it try to stay neutral and others few wars where we want both sides to lose the this is one of the but we were kind of neutral at the beginning and then we have this anomaly which is the iran contra sort of the tail end of the iran-iraq war we were doing a rather complicated dance. why don't you help us understand some of the perspectives of, you know, the sort of military narrative how iran contra fit into what had been seen as a kind of a growing worry about the capabilities of iran and that whole decade of the 80's that iran as a mother to reactor didn't want iran to become a powerful military. >> guest: iran contra is interesting because it comes at the time iran contra happens at least the arms piece of it happens in the mid-1980s when they make the transition, militarily from worrying that the soviet union as the great threat as invading iran to an intr
let's say the end of the iran iraq war. let's go back. the middle of the 1980's we see iran preoccupied by the war end of the united states kind of intermittently gets involved. does it try to stay neutral and others few wars where we want both sides to lose the this is one of the but we were kind of neutral at the beginning and then we have this anomaly which is the iran contra sort of the tail end of the iran-iraq war we were doing a rather complicated dance. why don't you help us understand...
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estimate is this based on your experience in iraq? >> i think the work of the imagination that wouldn't have happened without the experience is that on had. the circumstance that would occur in the book, but i think that a motion of the book is something that i wanted to get out there and communicate to people. questions i've got to ask and other veterans ask what was it like over there. it's hard to know how to answer that question but that is what i was trying to do when i started to write the book is to highlight what is it like petraeus kimmage you talk about the emotional core. what do you bring out? >> i think confusion is probably -- we have a job to do and you understand your job. you may not understand all of the questions down the line the way it affects people around you and particularly the way that it affects your family at home. i don't think that i understood that until i had some time to mature about what the year was like for her so that is the story that i wanted to tell, too, the effect it can have on the family's.
estimate is this based on your experience in iraq? >> i think the work of the imagination that wouldn't have happened without the experience is that on had. the circumstance that would occur in the book, but i think that a motion of the book is something that i wanted to get out there and communicate to people. questions i've got to ask and other veterans ask what was it like over there. it's hard to know how to answer that question but that is what i was trying to do when i started to...
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at that time, it was sort of the bread basket of iraq. they were making this decision to do this and he said, somebody said, what about this? we can't do this campaign against these guys because -- we have the americans way, we don't need that. >> we don't necessarily think of the food system. we think of ourselves as the primary accessories of it. go to wiki leaks and you will find some very interesting dialogues between american diplomats trying to tell people in other countries, you know, these farmers won't accept a certain foods, we have to find a way to make sure that these guys except rj mcleod. we all have our work cut out for us. i cannot just emphasize this as americans and works in ways that, you know, we don't even think of. >> it feels like the biggest hurdle, is just that -- in addition to being -- it's just that we've been trying to think that everything should be cheap, do you know what i mean? it's hard to have a conversation about it. because when you are on the side of the issue and you say that you look like a jackass.
at that time, it was sort of the bread basket of iraq. they were making this decision to do this and he said, somebody said, what about this? we can't do this campaign against these guys because -- we have the americans way, we don't need that. >> we don't necessarily think of the food system. we think of ourselves as the primary accessories of it. go to wiki leaks and you will find some very interesting dialogues between american diplomats trying to tell people in other countries, you...
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if we look at iraq they are trying to shape the future of iraq are not arabs with iran and turkey. weakness in the leadership in the world from states like egypt, syria, iraq have been marginalized for one reason or another the decision making process is very slow and we have the leadership there. they are following and think they will get involved like the affairs and the middle east. al jazeera is still trying to sort out its bloody civil war met in the 1990's, so we have a sense of malaise and weakness and vulnerability, marginalization. and here comes the islamists who are absolutely excellent at the marginalization on the part of the u.s. in particular. in his political and not religious because the islamists now, the extremists are trying to back up the frenzy of these alienated youth and other alienated. he is allowing this to take place to the criticism from the extreme islamists and allowing against the americans so they wouldn't focus on the injustices taking place and unemployment, problems with the minorities, egypt, securities has tremendous problems. hundreds of peopl
if we look at iraq they are trying to shape the future of iraq are not arabs with iran and turkey. weakness in the leadership in the world from states like egypt, syria, iraq have been marginalized for one reason or another the decision making process is very slow and we have the leadership there. they are following and think they will get involved like the affairs and the middle east. al jazeera is still trying to sort out its bloody civil war met in the 1990's, so we have a sense of malaise...
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to the tune of over 2 million who have served in iraq and afghanistan, and over 2 million today who are making us proud. so as we take up this debate in terms of our future, and in particular with respect to defense, i've said many times, the thing we need to get right to ensure our military is in good shape for the future is make sure we get it right for our people and their families. that's not just a cost or a budget item. that is the strength of who we are as a military. and as a military, having fought two wars in this all-volunteer force for the first time, that we have a pretty healthy discussion about what that means coming out of these wars, even as we have 70,000 still exposed in afghanistan today. what that means for us as a country, and what that means for us as a military as we look forward to the security requirements which seem to always be there, that ill challenge us, both here at home as well as globally around the world. thank you again for the opportunity to speak to these critical issues. they touch the core of our future as a nation of greatness, and i believe that
to the tune of over 2 million who have served in iraq and afghanistan, and over 2 million today who are making us proud. so as we take up this debate in terms of our future, and in particular with respect to defense, i've said many times, the thing we need to get right to ensure our military is in good shape for the future is make sure we get it right for our people and their families. that's not just a cost or a budget item. that is the strength of who we are as a military. and as a military,...
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nobody argued we're at war in iraq or afghanistan. i wanted evidence he believed that we were at war with the groups that attacked us on september 11th. .. he would use law enforcement authorities but he would not limit himself just to law enforcement authorities. he would actually use his authority sounds commander-in-chief to wage war against a foreign enemy. i'm sure you all remember in 2009 after just a few weeks in office president obama was awarded the nobel peace prize. by and large i thought it was awarded because he wasn't president bush and the europeans wanted to confirm that fact. [laughter] do we recall his acceptance speech in scandinavia? do you recall the scene? i do. i watched carefully. you have the president at the podium here and he's reading his speech, and the camera shot is coming from here, okay? so we are seeing kind of the back of the president, and then you are seeing the nobel committee and ought of the dignitaries that have been inflated. and it's a remarkable scene. i've actually tested this on the other
nobody argued we're at war in iraq or afghanistan. i wanted evidence he believed that we were at war with the groups that attacked us on september 11th. .. he would use law enforcement authorities but he would not limit himself just to law enforcement authorities. he would actually use his authority sounds commander-in-chief to wage war against a foreign enemy. i'm sure you all remember in 2009 after just a few weeks in office president obama was awarded the nobel peace prize. by and large i...
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and that's been very uneven in both iraq and in afghanistan. there's new book out by texas a&m history professor by the name of terry anderson, talking about decisions made along the way in the bush administration about many so things they should have seen when they didn't work out the way they promised the country they would about how they would kind of redefine what their motivations were. we can use these kinds of books and retrospectives, if you will, to prepare the country for the next debate because we will go to war again. let me just say one other thing if i can. tomorrow in new york i'm going to be part of a national summit on the reintegration of veterans. there are a lot of good programs underway in the private sector and in the public sector as well but they're not as connected as they need to be. so we're going to bring to the same table in new york all day long corporate chieftans, members of congress, other people who are working for ngos and nonprofits to try to establish, if you will, a template and have that template become pa
and that's been very uneven in both iraq and in afghanistan. there's new book out by texas a&m history professor by the name of terry anderson, talking about decisions made along the way in the bush administration about many so things they should have seen when they didn't work out the way they promised the country they would about how they would kind of redefine what their motivations were. we can use these kinds of books and retrospectives, if you will, to prepare the country for the next...
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why doesn't trade to its of course you trade from iraq. the border between -- [inaudible] is close to get has been closed for years. did you go to tunisia. country with oil. [inaudible] and in egypt was a very difficult country for trading. the structure, the economic structure of egypt was not very open to trade with the western world, particularly with -- [inaudible]. then with some of the neighbors. but i think that we have to do both things, to create more change, in terms of change of trade. but i would like to much to see trade among themselves. and for that, it would be very useful to help, more integrated terrain. so the barrier between them has -- [inaudible]. it's very difficult to have real mentoring development. they don't have better relations among themselves. >> regional economic integration has been something spoken of for so long. but even if we look at north africa now, we have three countries that embarked on this journey of change, others that are not, or are much less so. so what do you think, general powell, d.c. grea
why doesn't trade to its of course you trade from iraq. the border between -- [inaudible] is close to get has been closed for years. did you go to tunisia. country with oil. [inaudible] and in egypt was a very difficult country for trading. the structure, the economic structure of egypt was not very open to trade with the western world, particularly with -- [inaudible]. then with some of the neighbors. but i think that we have to do both things, to create more change, in terms of change of...
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bush and iraq. one of the centers of this book is abraham lincoln and the civil war. the thing about lincoln is that the experience of america during those years in the largeness of the man, you know, you almost might think is there anything further to be said about abraham lincoln. there always is. both because of the lessons we can take away from his life experience and his presidency, and also because new sources still turn up from time to time. coming to a place like this, as a historian, you are trying to repeat and give a real sense of what the president's experience was. in this case, abraham lincoln and the civil war. because you can come here to this house, where he spent so much time as a president, you can go into the room where he woke up in the morning. can see the sights he saw while looking outside. you can hear a lot of this sounds that are very similar to what he would've heard at the time. this is my favorite room in the house. which is the library. for a couple of reasons. one is that you really get a sense, perhaps more than some of the other rooms
bush and iraq. one of the centers of this book is abraham lincoln and the civil war. the thing about lincoln is that the experience of america during those years in the largeness of the man, you know, you almost might think is there anything further to be said about abraham lincoln. there always is. both because of the lessons we can take away from his life experience and his presidency, and also because new sources still turn up from time to time. coming to a place like this, as a historian,...